Tag: NativeAmericans

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Requiem for Oaquaga: The Great Law of Peace in the Time of a White Man’s War

February 20, 2025.Uncategorized.#americanrevolution

Until the mid-1770s, there was a thriving Native agricultural and trading town here – Oaquaga – on a bend in the upper Susquehanna River, in the southern tier of present-day New York State. It was likely established in the centuries after the last glacial age, by the ancient ancestors of the five peoples who combined […]

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Still Standing on the Shores of Ganondegwa: The Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794

November 11, 2024.Uncategorized.#Canandaigua

CANANDAIGUA, NY – November 11, 2024 – In the northwestern reaches of present-day New York State, winter comes hard and early, scrubbing the long green ridges between the finger lakes with wind, rain, and snow, and today is no exception. But today, such weather will not stop the six Haudenosaunee peoples – known for centuries […]

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